Princess Alice of Great Britain was born on this day. It is she who passed on hemophilia to the Russian i ...

Princess Alice of Great Britain was born on this day. It is she who passed on hemophilia to the Russian imperial family. Namely, Alice was the daughter of the famous Queen Victoria, and she passed on ...

On this day, Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph I and Bavarian princess Elisabeth, known by the nickname Sis ...

On this day, Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph I and Bavarian princess Elisabeth, known by the nickname Sissi, were married in Vienna. The two of them met the year before. It is interesting that Elizab ...

The Austrian Archduchess Marie Valerie was born on this day in 1868. She was the youngest daughter of Emp ...

The Austrian Archduchess Marie Valerie was born on this day in 1868. She was the youngest daughter of Emperor Francis Joseph and Empress Sissi. Sissi gave birth to four children, but the first of them ...

On this day in 1900, a dramatic battle took place in the heart of the African continent, bordering the pr ...

On this day in 1900, a dramatic battle took place in the heart of the African continent, bordering the present state of Chad and Cameroon. It happened about a hundred kilometers from the famous Lake ...

Vladimir Ulyanov, the Russian revolutionary who later changed his name to Lenin, was born on this day in ...

Vladimir Ulyanov, the Russian revolutionary who later changed his name to Lenin, was born on this day in 1870. He was born in the city of Simbirsk on the Volga River (today Ulyanovsk – the city was la ...

The wealthy English girl Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts was born on this day in 1814. She donated a lot o ...

The wealthy English girl Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts was born on this day in 1814. She donated a lot of money to charities, so Queen Victoria gave her the title of Baroness (Baroness Burdett-Coutts ...

Adolf Hitler was born on this day in the Austrian town of Braunau on the River Inn. His father was Alois ...

Adolf Hitler was born on this day in the Austrian town of Braunau on the River Inn. His father was Alois Hitler and he worked as a customs inspector in Braunau, located on the German-Austrian border. ...

Napoleon III, a nephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was born on this day in 1808. He also became th ...

Napoleon III, a nephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was born on this day in 1808. He also became the Emperor of the French thirty years after the death of his uncle. He ruled France from 1852 to ...